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Photon-number-state generation with a single two-level atom in a cavity: a proposal

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A single two-level atom can be used to prepare an arbitrary photon number state (Fock state) in a high Q cavity . The atom undergoes a controlled succession of interactions with two cavity modes. One of them contains a coherent field. The atom transfers photons one by one from this field to the initially empty second mode. The scheme can be extended to prepare a quantum superposition of the vacuum with a Fock state, a highly non-classical situation. We discuss the feasibility of the experiment with our present Rydberg-atom cavity QED set-up.

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  1. Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Laboratoire de l'Université Pierre et Marie Curie et de l'ENS, associé au CNRS (URA 18), Département de Physique de l'École Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France, , , , , , FR

    P. Domokos, M. Brune, J.M. Raimond, J.M. Raimond & S. Haroche

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Received: 6 November 1997 / Accepted: 17 November 1997

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Domokos, P., Brune, M., Raimond, J. et al. Photon-number-state generation with a single two-level atom in a cavity: a proposal. Eur. Phys. J. D 1, 1–4 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00021550

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